Improvement in curry-combs



UNITED STATES' WILLIAM I. KELLOGG, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

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To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM l?. KELLOGG, of the city of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Curry-combs, of which the following is a specication, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

leable cast-metal end-pieces riveted to thebacks 0f the comb-bars and extended laterally somewhat beyond the ends thereof in convex form, without any knocking lug or lugs projecting from the rounded end or ends of the curry-comb, substantially as hereinafter set forth.

In the aforesaid drawing, Figure 1 is a view of the toothed side of one, and Figs. 2 and 3 are plans of the back sides of two others, of my improved curry-combs, a part of the handle be-` ing broken off in each figure. Fig. 4 is a section of the curry-comb shown in Fig. 1, at the line z a. y Fig. 5 is a view of one of the malleable cast-metal end pieces used in securing together and protecting the ends of the sheetmetal comb-bars of the curry-combs represented in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. Fig. 6 is a section of Fig. 3 at the line y y.

A A', B B', and G C' are a set of comb-bars formed of sheet metal, as usual in curry-combs,

but of different lengthsl and arranged with the longest bars B B in the middle, as shown in Fig. 1. D D are malleable cast-metal end pieces, which are of a convex form on their outer edges e, corresponding to a curved line joining the ends of the comb-bars ofthe set, and which are cast with rivet-blanks fff, Fig. 5, on one side. In Figs. 1, 2, and 4, Gis a back-plate, arranged between the backs h of the comb-bars and the sides i of the end pieces. In Figs. 3 and 6 there is no back-plate. The set of comb-bars of different lengths are secured together by inserting the rivet-blanks f of the end pieces through rivet-holes in the back-plate G and in the backs h of the comb-bars, or through the backs h alone, if thereis no back-plate, and then riveting down the blanks f tight upon the backs h ofthe combbars, as indicated at j j in Figs. 4c and 6. Each end-piece D has, along its outwardly-curved edge, a side flange, la, Fig. 5. When those end pieces are riveted to the comb-bars the flanges k may t against the correspondingly-curved ends of the back-plate G, as in Figs. 1 and 4, or against the ends of the backs hof the combbars, as in Fig. 6, or against the ends of both the back-plate and backs of the comb-bars, and thereby render the curry-comb more firm and durable 5 and at the same time the flanged or thickened curved edges of the end pieces D D extend somewhat beyond the ends ofthe combbars, as shown in Figs. l, 4, and 6, and thereby thoroughly protect the ends of all the comb-bars from being bent or injured by rapping anypart of either end of the curry-comb against a solid substance in the usual manner of jarring out the foreign matters that accumulate in the curry-comb in using the latter, so that no knocking-lugs whatever are required to project from and beyond the ends of the curry-comb. When the back-plate G is riveted to and between the backs h of the comb-bars and the end pieces D, asin Figs. 1 and l 5 or, when the back-strap Z 0f the shank m of the handle N is riveted to the comb-bars, as indicated at o o o in Fig. 3, or so as to prevent the comb-bars from being turned on the rivets of the end pieces, in such cases the end pieces need not have the side flanges k thereon when the parts of the end pieces which extend beyond the ends of the comb-bars are sufficiently wide and thick to fully protect the latter.

In the drawing, two comb-bars, as A and A',

or B and B' are shown formed on one back-piece h, and I generally prefer that construction, but

as regards my invention, each comb-bar, as A or A', may be formed on a separate back-piece, or the front and rear comb-bars, as A and C', may be formed on turned-up extensions of the back-plate Gr, as in some curry-combs heretofore made 5 and each curry-comb niayhave three 0r any desired greater number ofthe comb-bars. I generally prefer to make the end pieces D of malleable cast-iron.

A curry-comb constructed as above described is far more convenient and eifective in use, es-

pecially about the hollows and recesses where the limbs of the animal join its body, than if the same set of sheet-metal comb-bars of different lengths were riveted to a sheet-metal baclr-plate having rounded ends, with knocking-lugs projecting from the ends of the currycomb; or than if the comb-bars Were of equal .v lengths and riveted tomalleable cast-metal end pieces projecting beyond the ends of the combbars, with square corners or knocking-lugs thereon, as in some curry-combs heretofore made. In the currycombs heretofore constructed with the teeth all east in one and the same piece with a back-plate having rounded ends, Without any knocking-lugs projecting therefrom, the teeth are necessarily very diermetal comb-bars riveted to malleable castmetal end pieces projecting beyond the end of the comb-bars; no1` a curry-comb having a set of sheet-metal comb-bars of diffe-rent lengths, with the longest in the middle. The combination of all three of those features is essential to my invention.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A curry comb having the set of sheet-metal comb-bars of different lengths secured together with the longest in the middle and protected at their ends by means of the malleable castmetal end-pieces D shaped and riveted' to the backs h of the comb-bars and extended somewhat beyond the ends thereof in outwardlycurved form, Without any lug or lugs projecting from the end or ends of the curry-comb, substantially as herein shown and described.

l WM. l?. KELLOGG.

Witnesses:

GEO. P. LAWroN, AUSTIN F. PARK. 

